Morning Light Page #7

It was pretty miserable.

We were over on port deck

going very slow.

Now we've, uh, tacked over

onto starboard,

and blue sky, it's beautiful. [laughs]

Bit of a difference.

Sailing pretty good today.

Emotional roller coaster through

and through, this bloody race.

[upbeat music playing]

Hey, Towiller.

We need you on deck, mate.

- Coming.

- And you, too, Branning.

- OK, you guys ready?

- Yeah. Ready in the pit.

Hoist when ready, guys.

- Bring it over.

- Go for it, go, go, go!

Hold there, Towiller.

Ease. Ease, Towill.

[Welch] It's startin' to feel more

what I pictured Transpac to be like.

We're going to, going to Hawaii,

and we're back in the game.

We're gonna need

another human up here.

- [indistinct]... more brace?

- More brace.

[Wilmot] Piet, where's our Morning Light

logo on this kite?

Get Charlie up.

Isn't he in charge of sails?

The first kite we hoist in the Transpac

doesn't even have one.

[Brant-Zawadzki] "Charles.

Thanks for the contact.

Hawaii is fun.

The Red Sox just won the World Series.

And tell Welchy

the stock market burned down.

I'm sorry, but there are

no more stocks. Period.

Looks like you guys are going balls-out

on your route so far.

Hope you're rationing.

Everyone's either gonna say you're

brilliant or redheaded.

But tell Fancypants not to worry.

Statistics show that

30 percent of redheads..."

[Towill]

We had a beautiful sunset tonight.

If you look over here,

you can see the-the moon, um,

just glistening at the top of the...

Top of the clouds as it's setting,

and we've just got the slightest

little crescent new moon

and it's absolutely beautiful.

It's making a little spotlight

down on the water and...

Beautiful stuff out here, man.

[Enright] I just got an e-mail

from Graham. He wrote back.

Our race so far,

he wishes he was with us.

Clearly he's checking the grids, not

that he knows exactly what they mean.

He's into it and,

based on our track,

people are gonna either think we're

brilliant or a bunch of redheads.

- But, redheads tend to...

- [laughter]

Thirty percent of all redheads

turn out to live...

...healthy, productive lives

or something.

- Yes.

- But, yeah, he seems in good spirits.

- [Kane] Trim up.

- [Welch] Good.

[Towill] That's good.

That's really good.

Whoo! It's a scorcher!

[Kane] It's gonna be a "Triple-H" day:

hazy, hot, and humid.

[Branning] I gotta take a shower...

I gotta do some sort of bathing today.

[Van Os] Today was the first day

where it's really hot.

Woke up and it was sweaty and nasty

down below, which is not very fun.

[Wilmot] We share bunks downstairs,

so your person opposite you

gets a little too smelly,

then, you know, it's miserable.

[# Buzzcocks:

Everybody's Happy Nowadays]

Big Michiganders Gone Wild. [laughs]

[Welch] I think a little shower,

brushing your teeth,

besides the health part of it,

just kinda keeps you going.

I mean, it's a... freshens you up.

Today was awesome. I got a shower,

I got to shave...

[Kane] Got a hot date tonight, Genny?

[laughs] I groomed myself

while all the boys watched.

No, I'm just kidding. Um, but it was

sweet to finally get a shower today.

And then, obviously, all the...

all the... Trim.

Um, I feel like

we're all in a pretty good mood

and we're all clean and happy.

[Kane] Our competition, Samba,

is, uh, right above us,

so there's a lot of pressure

on the bow team at nighttime.

Tonight's gonna be a big opportunity

for either one of us to push away.

Nighttime racing is, uh,

where you can really make huge gains.

And it's hard to see your competitors.

They can, uh, pull a maneuver

without you seeing.

[Kane] Last night was our first night

with the spinnaker, and it feels off.

We just need to kinda get with it.

Everyone was running around

like chickens with their heads

cut off, including myself.

[Wilmot] If we go to sleep for two hours

we could lose seven miles like that.

[Welch] These guys on Samba,

they're all fantastic sailors.

And, you know, we're all

really new to it, I guess.

And we've gotta really make sure that

we, you know, try and keep our edge.

Who knows?

You might see us tonight

jibing a couple of times

on random shifts,

just to get away

from these guys to windward

and catch 'em

with their pants down.

[Welch] I like where your head's at.

[Kane] Yeah.

[Branning] This is pretty much, I guess,

as about as far away from land

as you can get anywhere on the planet,

- where we are right now.

- [Wilmot] Yeah. Halfway point.

Pretty amazing, isn't it?

Samba Pa Ti, we just saw. We can see

their running lights right over there.

They're behind us and going south.

[Tulloch] So it's Day Six,

we just saw Samba,

and we're less than

a mile away from them.

Samba's come astern of us

and jibed right on our line.

Trim up.

[Tulloch] The pressure's really been up.

The... the intensity

on the boat is super high.

We're just pushing, pushing,

pushing all the time.

Hold.

Trim up.

Big trim, big trim.

[# Massive Attack: Angel]

[Van Os] Nice.

[Van Os laughs] I can't believe

that boat's right there.

How close do you think they are?

Quarter of a mile?

Not even 200 yards?

[Van Os] Nice to have someone

right there to push you.

Just think, we're making 'em

work for their money today.

- Yup.

- Yeah.

- Don't stop.

- [laughs]

Ooh. Bolt.

[Towill] It's a thousand miles

into the race.

Samba's closer to us now

than they were at the starting line.

Trim up. Pull back.

[Van Os] Wow. Doing 13 knots.

The whole Pacific.

The boat, two boat lengths from you.

[Kane] I'm gonna be a pro sailor.

Forget landscape design,

I'm doing this for the rest of my life.

[Wilmot] I think the owner's

on the wheel.

Lock it. Big trim, big trim,

big trim, big trim.

[Van Os] No, no, no, not now, not now.

- Got it. Hold.

- Just keep your cool, Piet.

[Van Os] We just got rolled,

unfortunately.

[Wilmot] Pretty bloody close.

I can see the smiles

on their faces.

[Fielding] That one guy

gave us the thumbs up.

[Kane] That's pretty cool.

What are they doing here?

- And not that right now.

- Nah, they're filling the space left.

- They only have one sheet on.

- Yeah, that would verify it.

- [Will] Trim.

- [Towill] Yeah.

We'll take a fast-way line to Hawaii.

[Kane] Bold. What's going on?

- [Van Os] Wow, look at that.

- What are they doing?

[Welch] They're animals,

and they even got Kilroy out.

[Towill] I think they lost a halyard.

[Wilmot] They lost their kite.

[Kane] They got something

on the rudder, I don't know.

[Kilroy] We had a sea serpent.

And it was wrapped around our rudder.

And they looked at us like we were nuts.

We went a little bit to leeward.

I haven't had that kind of experience

with another boat

in the middle of the ocean before.

[Enright] That was a super

professional move.

[Tulloch] What happened?

[Enright] They thought they

had something on their rudder,

so they went kite down

on deck, staysail in.

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